Vegetarian Star

Christian Serratos has a salad dressing recipe you should try tonight!

Judging from her description of the blend in the May/June 2010 issue of Vegetarian Times, the Twilight actress is not the measuring kind of veg cooking gal. But when it comes to spicy, taste is a subjective thing and you have to make your own adjustments.

“You can make your own salad dressing by mixing together some extra virgin olive oil with vinegar and a little sriracha hot chile sauce and a dash of pepper. It’s the best!”

Sriracha sauce is a Thai hot sauce made with chile peppers, vinegar, garlic, sugar and salt.

The sauce itself can go great on vegetarian sushi or pizza and may even be used as ketchup with a little extra kick on french fries.

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Vegan athlete Scott Jurek has broke the U.S. record in the IAU 24-Hour World Championship run in Brive, France by running 165.7 miles in one day. Jurek finished second to Shingo Inoue of Japan, who set an Asian record of 170.0 miles.

The previous record breaker, Mark Godale, wrote an email to the editorial department of a publication in Jurek’s home town of Seattle, congratulating him on the achievement.

“Setting a new American 24-hour record is a great achievement,” Godale said. “Scott has a big heart and a lot of guts. I congratulate Scott and the entire US team for their great success in Brive. They have made all of us proud.”

And Jurek has made the vegetarians and vegans proud.

Jurek grew up in the midwest on a traditional meat and potatoes diet before learning in college about completely plant based diets, slowly transitioning from eating little amounts of fish to complete veganism.

He most recently interviewed with New York Times columnist and advocate of a “vegan until 6” flexitarian eating approach Mark Bittman, after the two had been on a jog and eaten a vegan meal prepared by Jurek.

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Shaquille O’Neal sat down for an interview with Sports Illustrated with a bottle of V8 by his side, which took writer Chris Ballard by surprise.

The player who Ballard described as a man who used to, “dine on 48-ounce steaks and wash them down with 24-ounce steaks, cradling this tiny vessel of vegetable pulp,” has changed more than his choice of beverage lately.

Ballard says Shaq now orders organic meals, got rid of soda and white bread and cut out almost all red meat from his diet, losing 20 pounds in the process.

“And damn if he doesn’t look relatively slim, his stomach practically a plane beneath his T-shirt, which he pairs most days with baggy sweatpants and perhaps the largest pair of shower sandals ever manufactured.”

Calling foul on the red meat may do more for Shaq than lead the Cavaliers to a championship.

New study results presented at the American Association for Cancer Research’s annual meeting suggests people with the highest red meat intake also have the highest risk of developing bladder cancer.

Among the 884 people with bladder cancer and 878 without studied, those that ate the most red meat were 58% more likely to develop bladder cancer.

Those that consumed the most bacon, pork chops, fried chicken and fried fish also had a higher risk.

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John Joseph, punk rocker and author of Evolution of a Cro Magnon and his latest book, Meat is for Pussies, recently sat down for a video interview on physical and spiritual health, food and his book set for release this month.

Diet may go a long way towards your spiritual health, and Joseph insists that if you’re still consuming cheeseburgers to reward yourself after a yoga workout, you might succeed in the arm balance but you’ll never achieve real peace.

“You see people going to raw foods restaurants with leather jackets and fur and all kinds of crap. It becomes another form of vanity. If you’re doing yoga and you’re doing all this stuff and you’re going and eating meat, it’s like trying to light a fire but you’re throwing water on it. You’re never going to progress in your spiritual practice when you’re consuming animals that have been tortured and butchered. It’s just not possible.”

Watch the interview for more.

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Vegan athletes have one more option for protein powders.

All-Pro-Science, the supplement company founded by Tony Gonzalez, comes in a completely vegan variety, in addition to its whey formula derived from grass fed cows.

The football player who follows a mostly vegetarian diet told ESPN how his trials and frustrations with several other protein powders in the kitchen led to the idea of All-Pro-Science.

“I was mixing a little of this and a little of that. I had to buy so many things. It was expensive and inconvenient,” Gonzalez said. “Also you never know what you’re getting in those, and my body is my moneymaker so I want to know everything I’m putting in it.”

Free of milk, soy, wheat and gluten, the vegan powder contains 23 grams of brown rice, pea and hemp protein, 107 calories, 4 grams of carbohydrates and 1.5 grams of fat per serving.

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"Top Chef Masters" Jody Adams

Top Chef Masters Lisa Adams wasn’t just competing when she made a vegetarian dish to honor The Simpsons’ Lisa Simpson during a recent challenge on the show.

This chef would actually eat what she made–and encourages others to do the same.

“I had just a small glance of Lisa’s personality and I knew she was a vegetarian,” Adams told Reality Wanted. “I loved cooking a dish that I would love to cook for myself. A mentor chef of mine once said to “cook for yourself first, then cook for your customer and lastly, cook for the press.” That is the key to authentic cooking.”

Adams and her husband are collecting vegetable based recipes for a cookbook or a website with a focus more on plant based diets.

“It is better for the planet, for the animals, and for our health,” she said.

In addition, she’s planning a trip to Washington, D.C. to talk to the Environmental Protection Agency about food.

“The word is getting out to the public that we need to eat differently, and communities are seeing the issues they face with eating,” Adams said, adding that vegetables need to be made “sexy” again.

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So many Playboy readers know that staying away from artery clogging meat may help prevent impotence, which is bad for, uh, enjoying Playboy, so more than likely if you read Vegetarian Star, you’ve already read Russell Brand‘s interview with the magazine.

Playboy asked Brand how he felt about being voted PETA’s Sexiest Vegetarian Alive not once, but twice.

Here’s what Brand had to say:

“Being the world’s sexiest vegetarian is akin to being the world’s most lovable pedophile. In a way it’s as much a condemnation as it is an endorsement. But I’m proud to be considered sexy, let alone the world’s sexiest in any category. If I were nominated to be the sexiest man on this sofa, I would happily accept that title.”

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Mike Tyson and his wife recently had dinner at Mr. Chow restaurant in Beverly Hills.

Mr. Chow also has locations in London, New York, Miami and one to soon open in Las Vegas.

Since Tyson is a newbie vegan and all, it would have been interesting to know what the former heavyweight champion filled up on.

Mr. Chow featured a special menu for 2010 Valentine’s Day which listed a vegetarian dumpling called “My Little Dumpling.”

Sounds like the perfect appetizer for a veg friendly couple!

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